Wild Rice Recipes from Moose Lake Wild Rice

Method #1 Wash one cup of Wild Rice thoroughly.
Place the Wild Rice in a heavy saucepan with 4 cups of salted water. Bring to boil.
Simmer covered for about 45 minutes or until tender but not mushy. (Remember wild rice may have different preparation times - sometimes as short a cooking time as 20 minutes.)
Uncover. Fluff with a table fork. Simmer for an additional 5 minutes. Drain excess liquid, if any.

Method #2
1 cup raw Wild Rice
Rinse thoroughly and put in a covered baking dish. Add 3 cups of water and 3 heaping tsp. of granulated chicken
boullion. Cover and bake in a 350° oven for 1½ hours. Check rice after 1 hour's time. If more water is
needed, add water and fluff with fork. Continue baking for an additional ½ hour. Rice should be moist - not dry.

If you server Wild Rice as a breakfast cereal or if for any reason you don't want the meal flavor,
eliminate the boullion and add 3/4 tsp salt instead.

It is just as easy to bake 2 or 3 batches of Wild Rice while the oven is hot. Put extra cooked
batches in sealed bags and freeze for future use. Wild Rice freezes beautifully and is so handy to have on hand.

MICROWAVE

Any of the basic directions and standard recipes can be adapted to the microwave oven, but you should make time
adjustments suitable for your particular oven. Using the manufacturer's directions and recipes as a guideline.

Because Wild Rice requires a long simmering time, the microwave oven does not reduce the cooking time
dramatically. Use the following basic directions, making adjustments in time according to the power of your microwave.

Place 1 cup Wild Rice & 4 cups water and 1 tsp salt in a 3 qt glass covered casserole. Cook on high about 6
minute, then reduce power setting to low or defrost and cook 30 minutes. Leave rice undisturbed in the oven for
another 10 - 15 minutes. Check to be sure Wild Rice is tender.

DON'T WASTE THE DRIPPINGS WILD RICE

Cook 1/2 cup Moose Lake Lake & River Wild Rice in 8 oz of desired broth.
Simmer until all liquid has absorbed.
Whatever kind of meat you make, take out of pan and add peppers, onions, mushrooms and saute in drippings.
Add wild rice to this and serve.
Easy and tastes great.
Use it a lot when making wild game or pheasant.

Make white sauce with butter, flour and milk. Add cream of mushroom soup and mushrooms

CHIPPEWA RICE

4 strips bacon
6 eggs
&frac14 tsp. pepper
&frac12 tsp. salt

3 cups cooked wild rice
2 T minced chives
butter
parsley or paprika

Cut bacon into strips and fry in heavy skillet. Beat eggs, salt and pepper until light. Pour into skillet
and brown lightly. Turn as you would a pancake and brown other side. When firm, cut into strips and toss
lightly with wild rice and chives. Dot with butter and garnish with parsley or peprika. Serve hot.

WILD RICE ROULADE

8 thin slices of cooked poultry
8 slices ham
2 cups cooked rice

24 spears cooked asparagus
2 cans cream of mushroom soup

Make 8 stacks, placing poultry on bottom, then ham, &frac14 cup rice and 3 asparagus spears. Roll each stack.
Place in greased baking dish and cover with mushroom soup. Bake in 325° oven for 30 minutes or until piping hot.

1 can cream of shrimp soup
1 can of rinsed and deveined shrimp
1 can cream of mushroom soup

Heat together.

POTATO-WILD RICE SOUP

potatoe soup
&frac12 cup cooked wild rice
&frac12-1 cup light cream

pat of butter, dollop of sour cream per serving
garnish of crumbled bacon or parsley or both

Make your favorite potatoe soup recipe, Add &frac12 cup cooked wild rice or more, and enough cream to be of
the right "soupiness." Top each serving with butter, sour cream and garnish. For an extra treat, add a small
can of clams, liquid and all.

WILD RICE SOUP

Fry bacon, hamburger, onion and celery together until done.
Add 1 large can of whole tomatoes, 1 large can of stewed tomatoes and 1 can of tomato juice, enough to make it soupy. Add salt and pepper to taste. Simmer for 2 hours.
*Instead of stewed tomato add salsa sauce. That is really great. The longer you let simmer the better.
Serves 6 - 8

CHERRY / CRANBERRY WILD RICE

Start off in small skillet toasting the almonds.
Add the toasted almonds to the chicken broth in a glass covered pyrex-type dish.
Add a large pat of promise margarine to the skillet and sauté sliced mushrooms.
While mushrooms are sautéing, rinse the wild rice in a small strainer.
Remove mushrooms to broth w/slotted spoon.
With remaining juices in skillet, add the wild rice and stir til juices absorbed ? maybe 1 or 2 minutes tops.
Add to broth,mushrooms and almonds.
Cover and bake for 1hr ? to 1hr 5mins. (all of the broth should be absorbed)
After the 1hr or so, carefully remove lid due to the steam and add the cherries or cranberries and gently mix.
Put the lid back on and let sit til almost cool. (the cherries/cranberries will then be very moist)

WILD RICE DIETING SALAD

Mix together with a light vinegarette dressing (Newman's Own Lite Original or Lite Balsamic salad dressing).
Other than the wild rice, every ingredient is optional. My variations include cauliflower, broccoli, asparagus, green beans, water chestuts, jicama, dried cranberries, walnuts, sunflower or pumpjin seeds, ham, summer sausage, etc.
This is my dieting staple and I eat lots of wild rice with just about any vegetable I have on hand.

WILD RICE W/CHICKEN LIVERS

Saute onion in butter. Put aside.
Pat dry and cut liver into manageable sizes.
Flour the chicken livers and cook (fry) in same butter as the onions and cook till golden brown. (add more butter as required since butter will be absorbed by flour). Add salt&pepper whilst cooking.
Cook wild rice in chicken broth - add salt if required. Drain broth. If you really like butter then add a dollop to rice and mix in.
In casserole dish mix livers, rice and onion. Salt&pepper to taste.
Cover with cheese. Suite to taste.
Cover casserole dish.
Bake 325 for 30-40mins or until heated well and cheese has melted.

I have left quantities out since amount ratio liver:rice:onion is a user preference.

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